The CHU Liège is the academic hospital linked to the University of Liège and the only university hospital in Wallonia Region (Belgium). With 1038 beds, 87 300 patients are hospitalized each year and its clinical activities steadily grow over the years. A public and pluralistic hospital, the CHU Liège employs over 6,000 doctors, nurses and other staff who bring their wealth of expertise to the benefit of patients.
It devotes the necessary financial, technological and human resources to establish optimal conditions for clinical care, teaching and research. Benefitting from a new ultramodern infrastructure and from the close interaction with the innovative GIGA Research Institute, doctors and scientists engaged in basic, translational and clinical research are constantly guided by the will to transfer new knowledge and innovative therapeutic applications to patients as quickly and safely as possible, enabling optimized patient care.
Role in the PERSIST project
CHU will be involved in following tasks: coordination of T2.2 to review the state of the art of cancer survivorships care plans, designing the clinical study and roadmap, coordination of the clinical study between the clinical partners (WP6 lead), development of the material to be submitted to the local institutional review boards and ethical committees of the recruitment sites, coordination of this material between the partners, training of the personnel, patient recruitment according to the study protocol, data collection, analysis of the study results and result presentation and dissemination.